On 2/1/24 4:52 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> Ah, that's a relatively new configure option added in Python 3.10. It
> didn't exist back in 2015 when I was looking into this.
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#build-changes
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out.


Yes -- but personally, to me, it's less about the option existing in
order to avoid having to manually implement it, and more about the fact
that it's a clear message that you have the moral right to implement it
yourself for 3.9 as well.


And the public documentation for the "test" module has told people that
it is purely internal, unstable, liable to change at the drop of a hat,
and documented purely for the benefit of people hacking on the
cpython.git repository... since python 2.6 and earlier Which reinforces
the point that any packages that do `import test.support` are doing
something naughty and we don't need to worry about people complaining
that Gentoo isn't a good upstream-compatible development environment.


-- 
Eli Schwartz